Review of Todashev death to be released next week

Florida State Attorney Jeffrey Ashton on Tuesday will release his independent review of the death of Ibragim Todashev, who was shot and killed by an FBI agent last May and may have a connection to the 2011 triple homicide in Waltham.

Florida State Attorney Jeffrey Ashton on Tuesday will release his independent review of the death of Ibragim Todashev, who was shot and killed by an FBI agent last May and may have a connection to the 2011 triple homicide in Waltham.

At the time of the shooting, the agent and two Massachusetts State Police troopers were interviewing him in connection with last April’s Boston Marathon bombings. The FBI claimed a “violent confrontation was initiated” by Todashev before he was shot and killed by the agent, according to a May 22 FBI press release.

Ashton announced last August he would launch an independent review into why Todashev was shot. He will release it electronically at about 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to his office.

No further information was released regarding the report.

Amid conflicting comments made by anonymous law enforcement sources in the days immediately following Todashev’s death, a connection was drawn between Todashev and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

The older bombing suspect, who was killed during a shootout with Watertown police the week two bombs went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, was also identified as possibly being involved in the Sept. 11, 2011 unsolved triple homicide in Waltham.

One report suggested Todashev was being questioned about the Waltham homicides just before his death.

No clear answers have been given about Todashev’s death to date. The FBI launched its own investigation into the shooting, but Todashev’s father, Abdulbaki Todashev, called for an independent review after a June 18 New York Times article revealed that between 1993 and 2011, FBI agents fatally shot about 70 people and wounded 80 others, but in all cases they were found faultless after internal reviews.

The FBI has finished its report and it currently lies with the U.S. Justice Department for review.